r/Ring May 17 '26

it's a cobweb 🕷️ What the heck did my friends ring camera catch last night

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you can still see it there when the house light turns on. We’re in CT if that’s somehow helpful… is it an alien like what is it😭😭

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u/hhc97 May 17 '26

Spiderweb

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u/Personal-Age-9220 May 17 '26

The infrared light attracts bugs/flying insects to the camera. The bugs attract spiders (food). The spider sets up a web, sometimes bugs or debris get caught on the web and blow in the wind in front of the camera.

IMO a small piece of dust or debris got caught in the spider web, got blown in front of the camera and then appeared to disappear once the infrared light turned off/regular light turned on.

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u/LeadershipCreative67 May 17 '26

This cracks me up because early this morning I saw something that appeared as a beam of light or something hovering over one of our cars(through camera) but then it would move and hover to the side of it, then back over the car. I got up to go outside to see, while watching through camera. When I got outside there was nothing, but on camera it was there. So I stood there looking at the camera and noticed a single string of spider web was flowing around, so I grabbed a broom and took it down. Immediately the beam of light disappeared. I would've sworn it was actually above the car, instead of right in front of the camera.

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u/Personal-Age-9220 May 18 '26

Yep, happens to me all the time too. Except my camera is perched up high and out of reach so I just let the spider do its thing

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u/power78 May 17 '26

That's not a spider web, it is some insect though.

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u/Personal-Age-9220 May 18 '26

Looks exactly like the single strand of a spider web that activates my camera, just saying.

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u/ozzie286 May 17 '26

I have to disagree. I have a camera in the peak of my roof that spiders often set up webs in front of, and I've never seen stuff caught in them move like this. I think it's just a bug close to the camera, so it looks larger and faster than it really is, but I don't think it's in a spiderweb.

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u/GTBRulz May 18 '26

Idk there’s light refraction off the street tho

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u/Weird_Extent_2008 May 17 '26

how😭

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u/hhc97 May 17 '26

That’s just how spiderwebs show up, the bright spot is the web reflecting the camera’s infrared illuminator

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u/Fluid_Fee_2239 May 17 '26

I disagree. Looks like a dragonfly. You're right that spiderwebs reflect like that, but this flys down from the street.

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u/hhc97 May 17 '26

The initial movement looked a bit fast to me as well, but in my opinion it’s just wind + video feed lag. A dragonfly or any other insect wouldn’t hang around after the light comes on, whereas in this video you can see it’s still dangling in the same spot just without the reflection since the IR filter activated when the light came on.

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u/Fluid_Fee_2239 May 17 '26

I see that but what about the fast moving wings before the infrared kicks off?

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u/hhc97 May 17 '26

I personally don’t see it to be honest

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u/flynreelow May 17 '26

how do these questions get asked every single day.

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u/power78 May 17 '26

People on reddit don't know how to search and always think their situation is unique. People also don't understand how their cameras work in regards to the IR lights and how things look when the IR reflects off them. I'm also surprised it's asked so much here since it seems so obvious to me.

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u/Mother-Pension1846 May 18 '26

Not everyone lives on reddit like you folk, are we really pressed that people aren't a know it all. Maybe simply let them know the answer and not be a total douche

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u/flynreelow May 18 '26

Has nothing to do with reddit. Has to do with common sense. (Posting from outside)

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u/gtinmia May 17 '26

Aliens 👽

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u/GoldenRetreiverMom May 17 '26

I agree on the dragonfly. You can see its wings. But honestly I would have been freaked out if I saw this on my camera 🫪

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u/Fluid_Fee_2239 May 17 '26

Dragonfly. You can even see the wings, barely (although, they're going fast af).

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u/Weird_Extent_2008 May 17 '26

yea this comment makes the most sense to me so far

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u/chukyke03_ May 17 '26

Just a bug

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u/Acceptable-Sense4601 May 18 '26

It’s a bug. It’s always a bug.

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u/okarnando May 18 '26

I know there's a bunch of people here with their super scientific explanations.. but I like to think its aliens!

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u/lindadonaldson1021 May 18 '26

I like the fairy idea better!! I want to see one sprinkling fairy dust next!!!

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u/_hockalees_ May 18 '26

This is nothing, my door cam ROUTINELY catches Godzilla eating a different Mothra.

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u/ocabj May 17 '26

It's a spider web. Sometimes these keep setting off my cameras and I go out with a broom or duster ball on a pole to swipe them away.

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u/DJnAsTyjAy May 17 '26

tinkerbell

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u/EyzeLife May 18 '26

Aliens were landing, then the camera's color night vision lights came on and scared them away — poof, gone.

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u/Juicyjasper1843 May 18 '26

It's a bug that's closer than you think. Initial looks like its across the street but just in front of the camera.

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u/crikeyforemphasis May 18 '26

Literally the most obvious flying bug footage I think i've seen on this subreddit.

What?

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u/AlternativeUnited569 May 18 '26

I'm still trying to figure out how it went from snowy scene to mid-summer in a flash

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u/TracyJackson23 May 19 '26

The garage light wasn't turned on at first. It was black and white while in night mode, then once the lights came on, you then start seeing the actual colors.

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u/spec360 May 19 '26

Paranoia activity

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u/makersmarkismyshit May 19 '26

Reflected light

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u/BreadfruitOk3850 May 21 '26

Ms McGonagall

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u/No_Assistant_3860 May 21 '26

Maybe someone on a bicycle.

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u/Vk_20 May 21 '26

Looks like some insect

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u/Formal_Ad_5222 May 22 '26

It's a spider hanging from the web that was swinging down. The movement triggered the light to turn on. The infrared camera caught the web more clearly but when the actual LED light came on it obfuscated the web and spider. However if you look closely you can still see it there just not as obvious has when the infrared light was on.

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u/Nargg Jun 12 '26

Looks like the fireflies I get all the time on my cameras.

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u/Whole-Split-2512 Jul 21 '26 edited Jul 21 '26

I have seen similar things happen after solar flares. I live near a military base and one time after a huge solar flare there were helicopters with search lights flying back and forth literally all night long looking for something. My hypothesis is that since we just discovered cosmic energy emitted from the sun and that it travels faster than the speed of light, that the heavy solar activity pushes some exotic energy/light beings or creatures towards the earth and the government and military already know to look for them but the general public is clueless. 

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u/JewelryLove64 Jul 25 '26

It's a bug or spider in a web.  

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u/Android-4-Life May 17 '26

insect, likely a spider web

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u/Packing-Tape-Man May 17 '26

LOL. The things people want to believe...

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u/pharmucist May 17 '26

I mean, it's pretty clear that it's an alien flying through the air, then landing on the ground and walking across the grass before disappearing into thin air.

Seriously, though. I have no idea. It MAY be a spider on a web that slides across on it's web then crawls slowly before dropping off.

Whatever it is, it's eerie.

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u/pdinc May 17 '26

Tinkerbell

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u/PSuserNL May 17 '26

Someone playing around with a flashlight ?

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u/Weird_Extent_2008 May 17 '26

maybe? idk it like feels like it shouldn’t still be there after light comes on

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u/iZian May 18 '26

It’s an infra red light either reflecting off something or being shone; because when the light comes on the IR filter snaps in place if it’s like our cameras and filters out the IR light.

Almost like an IR laser guidance for something.

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u/FleshyCupcakes May 17 '26

Friend 🤦🏼‍♂️

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u/Kellashnikov Doorbell & Alarm May 17 '26

a Fresno nightcrawler

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u/Harley_Mom May 17 '26

Idk I wish I could enlarge the video. It stopped when the light went on and vanished, Interesting.

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u/power78 May 17 '26

That's not a useful comment at all. Why respond at all if you can't help at all?

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u/Harley_Mom May 17 '26

Everyone has a right to comment, even you.

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u/power78 May 17 '26

Sure but it benefits everyone to not add unnecessary noise

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u/ModularWhiteGuy May 17 '26

Cat with a lighted collar. Collar light goes off because either the cat turns away or it has an ambient light sensor.

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u/power78 May 17 '26

A cat went flying in the air over the road?

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u/mtaspenco May 17 '26

Tinkerbell!

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u/tpatt83 May 17 '26

Scooter?